Hearing the Voice

Dr Victoria Patton, Hearing the Voice Project Coordinator, writes: Last month Hearing the Voice welcomed delegates from the Academy of Finland’s Human Mind programme to a two-day workshop entitled ‘An Exchange of Minds: So what do you believe?’, which took place at the Palatine Centre at Durham University on 28-29 Read more…

Re-posted with permission from Hearing the Voice Lois Arkeley is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Teesside University. She writes: Earlier this month I attended the UK launch of In the Real by Conor McCormack at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne. My initial expectation was that the film would focus on Read more…

The Hearing the Voice Research Seminar series is designed to provide a platform for HtV researchers to share the detailed findings of their research and gain feedback from a wider audience. Anyone with an interest in interdisciplinary research on voice-hearing or auditory hallucination is welcome to attend. The programme for Read more…

‘We’re All Mad Here’ by Conor McCormackWednesday 17 December 5.30 – 7 pm The Joachim Room, College of St Hild and St Bede Durham University, Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1SZ For the past 3 years independent filmmaker Conor McCormack has been documenting the Bristol Hearing Voices Network, a self-help group for people who hear Read more…

The Emergence of Experience, Seminar Series Institute of Advanced Study University of Durham, 2014-2015 11 November 2014 Institute of Advanced Study, Seminar Room, 16.00-18.00 Marco Bernini: Submerging minds: features and principles of Beckett’s broken emergencies The recurring dehumanization or degeneration of Beckett’s characters’ mental faculties have largely been analysed as Read more…

What does it mean to be well? Or ill? And who, apart from you, really knows which is which? Contemporary definitions of medicine and clinical practice occupy just one small corner of a vast field of beliefs, superstitions, cultures and practices across which human beings have always roamed in the Read more…

Medical Humanities Sheffield is proud to continue a series of open interdisciplinary lectures for students, staff and the general public. Conundrums, confounds and cacophonies: Medical Humanities’ perspectives on the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations Dr. Angela Woods, University of Durham WEDNESDAY 22 October 2014 Council Room – Firth Court – Read more…